Lawrence Harris Feb 25, 2009
>Re: MAC galaxiesI felt that having the LEDA galaxies on would be useful so I just did this. The
> Posted by: "Bill J Gray" pluto@... feliks314159
> Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:02 pm ((PST))
>
>Hi Stuart,
>
> PGC and LEDA aren't quite the same thing.
>
> The first Guide disk has the smaller PGC catalog; the second
>disk has the million-galaxy catalog. (Though some have suggested
>to me that they think it's a million objects, most but not all of
>which are galaxies.)
>
> If you put the second Guide disk into the CD-ROM, you can use
>Extras... Toggle User-Added Datasets, then turn the "LEDA Million
>Galaxies" dataset on.
>
> As has been mentioned elsewhere, the Mitchell catalogue is still
>proprietary, which has greatly limited its use anywhere except in
>Megastar.
>
>-- Bill